SUPERANNUATION TRUSTEES
Financial planning
The superannuation industry wants an increase in the superannuation guarantee to 12 per cent, with or without the implementation of a Mineral Resource Rent Tax, according...
Financial planning
Not-for-profit superannuation fund trustees have been warned that if they do not agree on fund governance guidelines they risk having them imposed by the Government....
Superannuation
Australians have the right attitude towards their super, but many are still not aware of the additional services their fund provides, according to research by the Austral...
Superannuation
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia wants super funds treated like authorised deposit-taking institutions (ADIs) for AML/CTF purposes....
Financial planning
ASFA calls for nationally mandated data payment standards, with TFN use just the first step....
Superannuation
A budget submission from the AIST focuses on changes that will ensure all types of income include a superannuation component....
Financial planning
Australia is still lagging behind international standards when it comes to gender diversity on company boards, according to new research from the Australian Prudential Re...
Financial planning
The Government will extend the 'look through' arrangements to ensure there is no CGT applicable on instalment warrants....
Financial planning
The Government’s measured response to the 177 recommendations put forth in the Cooper Review has been broadly welcomed by the industry, with agreement reached on mo...
Policy & Regulation
The industry needs to move beyond telling Treasury why opt-in requirements and banning volume rebates won’t work and start offering solutions to the problems, accor...
Superannuation
AIST offers to work with Coalition to develop bipartisan support for key financial services issues....
Financial planning
Australian investors are becoming dangerously indifferent to the value of good corporate governance....
Funds management
Super funds told to use their bargaining muscle to move away from the existing asset-based fee regime for funds management, which generates substantial fees for managers ...
Financial planning
Industry superannuation funds have signalled they will be continuing their long running campaign against financial planning commissions with Industry Funds Management cha...
Superannuation
More than 80 per cent of industry superannuation funds expect to have some sort retirement solution product in place within the next three years – and half of those expec...
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It's not licensees not putting them on, it's small businesses (that are licensed) that cannot afford to put them on. The...